We loaded seven 13' oak logs Friday afternoon. Saturday morning my truck blew a brake line while I was getting ready to head to the sawmill. Lucky, lucky, lucky it happened in the driveway and not on the road. So we took the load that was hooked to Pops' truck, unloaded it, dropped the trailer and came back for the 2nd load. Back to the sawmill and went to work making boards.
The mill belongs to my old buddy Mikey. We've been friends since we were kids. Here he is making little ones out of a big one.
I brought one trailer home Saturday after we'd had all the fun we could stand and went back for the other trailer Sunday morning. Got home and went to work installing kickboards in the new mini barn. I'm quite pleased with the way it turned out. Should be darn near indestructible. Leah's horse was supposed to arrive yesterday, but bad weather in Colorado delayed that until this morning.
This is what I have left. The bay it's stacked in is 15'x15'. The widest boards are 15". Very heavy. I've got four 6"x6" posts in another stack, two logs at Mikey's, and another 10 or so that I need to load up and haul over there. I'll have plenty of lumber to rebuild all of the stalls in the big barn and some left to make furniture or something. I saved back one of the big outer slabs to build a couple park benches.
Now that I've got that project out of the way I can finally start to get ready for some gardening. The ground is plenty dry to work now, but it's really too early to plant anything. This week I'll till in the manure I applied last fall and have that out of the way. It won't need to be tilled again before planting. When the time comes I can just chunk some seeds in the ground and then watch em grow.